The farther I get into writing down all that happened, the “horribleness” of it all…a thought keeps jumping into my mind and showing itself like a trench-coated flasher…now you see it…now you don’t.
Let me see if I can reason this out - right in the middle of writing about the tragedies that the Lord pulled me through…not digressing into the tears, loneliness, wrongfulness and even the whole thesis of this manuscript…THE WAY WE TREAT OUR ELDERS…let me just work with this one “thought” and see if I can bring it to the light of my brain.
The thought:
We are a nation of consumers. All our good ‘ol boy blue-collar jobs are G-O-N-E. We no longer manufacture; almost everything is imported. Where are the funds coming from that run this country and all the cities, counties and states that are in this country? INVESTMENTS.
That’s why Carolyn and I could get no help. That’s why the law does not exist for us; because we were unfortunate enough to be on the “downside” of one of the government’s investments. And the government does not want any taxpaying citizen to see its portfolio – not profits. Not losses. The Dow Jones is the new Fort Knox.
Okay…so investments replaced jobs; Wall Street replaced Main Street, U.S.A; computers replaced real people; “The Health Care Industry” replaced the family doctor; MySpace replaced holding hands at the movies…okay…so what replaced the laws governing investments? What replaced the Sherman Act? What replaced Affirmative Action? What replaced our hearts? Where is our government…”One Nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all? Where?
Enron was different. It was all over every headline and every news station from coast to coast – because the government did not invest in Enron!
This is bad, really bad. We talked about it before…the United States is afloat on a sea of manure, sitting on an island of ticky-tacky.
This is bad. Really, really bad. And our once great country has made a liar of itself.
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